Next race: Sunday 13th May 2012
For live updates from the river follow @champsrc #8shead
Division times 12:00 noon, 1:30 pm & 3:00pm
Enter your crews using the Champs Online Entry System
Click here for the event poster. Detailed information on the event can be found in the documents at the bottom of this page.
Course Fastest Times
College Men (2008 – Men’s Course Record) – Downing M1 4:24.1
College Women (2008 – Women’s Course Record) - Christs W1 5:07.6
CRA Men (2010) – XPress XP1 4:47.3
CRA Women (2008) – Composite VetB 5:28.7
For 2012 we again have exciting prizes and special awards to make it another challenging and entertaining event including: Tankards for category winners – free fill of Milton Brewery beer (sponsored by Milton Brewery) if collected at the prize giving.
- Course Record awards – a Magnum of Veuve Clicquot Champagne to the fastest crew breaking the Men’s or Ladies’ course records (see below for record times).
- Prizes for the most ‘impressive’ starts (all 9 crew members win bottles of “champs”).
- Cox awards for judged best line around Ditton Corner. 1st prize sponsored by the Riverboat Georgina. Special Champion cox tankards for top 6 coxes.
- BBQ (from 13:00) and prizegiving (at 16:30) at City Boathouse
Competing crews must carefully read the following documents which are downloadable below:
- Competitor Info
- Safety Plan
- Map of the course
Entries closed on Tuesday 8th May 2012 at 6pm
University crews PLEASE NOTE – your ENTRY CATEGORY is your MAYS DIVISION (as of final results of Mays 2011) not your crew position in your boat club eg Mays 3 not 2nd boat. Any crews that will be entering the Getting-on Race are welcome to enter as M6 or W5.
Future Dates
2013 – Sunday 19th May
2014 – Sunday 18th May
Documents
- Champs 8s Head 2012 FINAL Results
- Archived results 2004-2011
- FINAL DRAW 12/05/12
- 2012 Poster
- Map of the course
- Competitor Information
- Safety Plan
Course Records
| YEAR | TIME | CREW |
| 2004 – MEN | 4.37 | Queens M1 |
| 2004 – WOMEN | 5.18 | Caius W1 & Magdalene W1 |
| 2005 – MEN | 4.56 | Clare M1 |
| 2005 – WOMEN | 5.26 | Jesus W1 |
| 2006 – MEN | 4.42 | Emma M1 |
| 2006 – WOMEN | 5.22 | Caius W1 |
| 2007 – MEN | 4:32 | 1st & 3rd M1 |
| 2007 – WOMEN | 5:15 | Jesus W1 |
| 2008 – MEN
|
4:24.1
|
Downing M1 (course record) |
| 2008 – WOMEN
|
5:07.6
|
Christs W1 (Time Only – course record) |
| 2009 – MEN | 4:39.8 | Downing M1 |
| 2009 – WOMEN | 5:34.5 | Pembroke W1 |
| 2010 – MEN | 4:33.1 | Downing M1 |
| 2010 – WOMEN | 5:22.4 | Newnham W1 |
| 2011 – MEN | 5:02.2 | Jesus M1 (Time only) |
| 2011 – WOMEN | 5:54.2 | Downing W1 |
